fireba11 wrote:i also noticed that
insert > picture > from file
gives the same results.
Yes, but not if you disable the
link checkbox in the import dialog. Then the image is embedded.
fireba11 wrote:but this is far from being intuitive ^^
Full ACK!!
I would even go a step further: It is confusing.
OOo Writer behaves exactly the other way: Here Drag&Drop
does embed the image instead of creating a link. I never understood why this difference in behavior is there.
But - there's more to come, as I just found out in a couple of tests:
If I Drag&Drop an image in Impress, and I embed the picture afterwards in the way JohnV has described, than the image is saved in the sort that the resulting file size can increase dramatically. In my case it happened with an JPG photograph which was compressed (716 KB).
Embedding it via
insert > picture > from file (with the
link checkbox disabled) leads to an .odp file with size of 767 KB. Embedding it by Drag&Drop and then breaking the link leads to an .odp file with size of 4,106 KB!
By renaming the .odp files to .zip (one of the greatest advantages of the ODF file formats - they are just ZIP files!!) you can see what happened: The file was converted to a PNG file which is considerably larger than compressed .jpg.
Does someone have an idea why this is happening?
I searched for issues on that with no success.
BR, phil